Americans are pretty fearful of the weather I've come to notice over the years. Nothing like a rumble of thunder or flash of lightening to have them scurrying as far away from the pool as possible. Although the kind of weather they get can be a little more intense that the mediocre stuff we complain about. The Brits however, are more likely to be the ones electrocuted as they scoff with their "only a bit of lightening" attitude.
There is a place for a less hysterical 'we're all gonna die' exit though, more a "Oh bugger, a storm, better go move my England towel and flip flops before they get wet" kind of thing, followed by a slow swim to the nearest steps and amble to the sun lounger.
On a more unpleasant note, we had to take a detour last night on the way to The Magic Kingdom as there had been a nasty accident involving a car and bus it seemed. We heard on the news later that a woman driving the car had for some reason stopped in the lane, and the bus was unable to avoid hitting it. She died later in hospital. Fortunately only two minor injuries to bus passengers. Seeing things like that bring home how precious life is.
But life does go on and we somehow managed yet another fun filled day yesterday.
After a lie in, we set off to Downtown Disney again to have lunch at the TRex Diner. Thankfully Alexander has now grown out of 'Build a Dino' and we left without an orange or purple fluffy thing wearing inappropriate clothing.
We did however eat Doughnut 'holes'...yeah right. dipped in hot chocolate and caramel sauce. Delicious but nauseating after six.
Despite having a box as big as an estate car full of Lego at home, that rarely gets played with, Alexander couldn't resist nipping next door to see the newly refurbished Lego store.
Some of the displays outside..
and this is just part of a wall of plastic bins containing individual bricks in every shape, size and colour.
I did see a frantic father grab a small brick from the hand of a toddler which was about to be eaten...and there were no HSE notices about that either......
From there we headed out into the sticks to find the elusive Boggy Creek airboat rides that we failed to find a few days earlier. The sat nav v post code thing is a bit iffy at times away from the built up parts so I navigated using a combination of a map - on paper kind of map, you know like we had in the olden days? Google Maps and a downloaded 'How to Find Us' map from the website. We found it with only one wrong turn......which was of course my fault.
We checked in, this was another of the 'freebies' we got by staying in the Animal Kingdom Lodge, along with free mini golf and a $500 gift card. Our ride time was 4:10 so we had about 40 mins to wait. Of course there were the obligatory photo opportunities, 'here's your photo that we've taken the trouble to print but of course you don't have to buy it', so we didnt.
The problem with these away from Disney trips is that they don't
'sort out the mozzies' like Disney do. So being a tasty morsel, I have to drench myself in bug spray. One year I was so badly bitten having gone for a meal at a creekside restaurant near St Augustine I could barely walk. Until then I had rarely been bitten. Armed against bites of any kind, we got on our boat with a few others and set off for 30 mins of airboating. We did see a teeny baby gator, a bald eagle - high up in a tree but you could see it's white crest, and some big beaked birds. If you look closely at these photos you can see the gator head and that white dot to the top right of the tree is the eagle.
Arrival back at the base and we got chance to hold a 3 year old gator named Thor. Alexander was desperate to have his photo taken, at more expense. It was a good one though and nice to keep.
Back to Disney for an evening at Magic Kingdom, which was more a stroll round with a trip on the Peter Pan ride - one of hubby's favourites and back to The Lodge for a quick cocktail at the pool bar before the heavens opened.
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